e-mail :  Krishna Gopalan

URL: http://www.krishna-gopalan.com

 

Krishna Gopalan has over 3 Years of experience in Project Management and Oracle Data Base Administration. IT was initially part of it but the last two years had been full-fledged on Oracle Database administration in production environment and he also developed good UNIX (Sun Solaris and HP-UX) and Windows NT administration skills.  He is also proficient in Oracle Enterprise Manager 2.1, Visual Basic programming and knowledge of C, Java and Developer 2000 languages.  Krishna Gopalan has strong interpersonal skills and is an active listener, effective communicator with a team/collaborative approach to problem solving.  Presently working as a Data Base Administrator in an Oracle Financials applications implementation environment.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

Application Software

SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 7.x, Oracle 8.x, D2K, Visual Basic, FoxPro, MS Access

Operating Systems:

Windows 9x/NT, UNIX (HP-UX, Sun Solaris), DOS

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

 

Oracle OCP Oracle8 DBA (Oracle Corp)

89 %

BrainBench Oracle Certified Professional

3.71

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

DishnetDSL Chennai, India

 

DBA          Jan 2001 – present

 

DishnetDSL is one of India’s largest Internet Service Providers and the leaders in DSL  in India.

 

Job involved: 

 

Data Base Administrator for Implementation of Oracle Financials for DishnetDSL and maintenance of the Database.  Project currently in the test environment phase and plan to go live by Mar 2001.

 

·         Administration of Oracle Application Database

·         Adding and managing space for effective utilization of resources

·         Tuning, Periodic Backup and Recovery

·         Security privileges and profile management.

·         Regular auditing

 

Technical Skills : Oracle 8i, Sun Solaris 2.6, Oracle Applications  11, Win NT, Win9x


 

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited, Karaikal, India

 

DBA           Aug 1997 - till Jan 2001

 

ONGC is large Oil and Natural Gas EPC Giant and the No.1 profit making Co. in India.

 

Jobs involved:

 

Data Base Administrator for implementation and maintenance of Integrated Materials Management System (IMMS) an Oracle / Developer 2000 based OLTP Materials Management system linking ONGC’s 27 project sites by LAN / WAN

 

1. Complete the Day to day operation requests, which includes administration db links, restoration of databases, object management and Security administration.

2. Managed space utilization within Oracle servers, Wrote monitoring scripts in SQL*Plus.

3. Installed ORACLE software, created tuned and upgraded databases.

4. Migrated the Oracle 7.3.4 to Oracle 8.

5. Co-ordinate with the development team on their day-to-day requirements.

6.Tuned database parameters; balanced I/O

7. Frequent tuning on Application and memory to speed up the response time

8. Regular production problem investigations

9. Working on distributed environment.

8. Maintaining Backup and Recovery procedures

 

Technical Skills: Oracle 7.x, Oracle 8.x, HP-UX, Win NT, Win9x, Enterprise Manager 2.1

 

Performance tuning and monitoring

Continually monitored system performances of all the databases and was retuned whenever necessary like changing the tuning parameters, restructuring the table, rebuilding indexes, checking for row chaining etc

 

Space management

Since production, the extent growths of key tables were monitored and block parameters were changed to improve space.

 

Backup and recovery

Developed effective backup and recovery strategy.  Periodic testing of back and recovery process.

 

Security Administration

Adding and removing users, administering quotas, regular auditing and checking for security problems

 

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting of the application and database bugs thereby eliminating potential problems.

 

Data Analysis

Analyze the data stored in the database and made recommendations relating to performance and efficiency of that data storage.  This related to the more effective use of indexes.

 

Data modeling and optimization

Assisting the application team with SQL and stored procedure developments and act as consultant to the user community as well as the development team.

 

Evaluation of new hardware and software purchases.

Evaluate, Recommend and Approve purchases of new Hardware and Software for development and future growth of new / existing projects.

 

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited

 

Mechanical Engineer  Apr. 1984 to Aug 1997

 

Was in the Engineering Division and was in Equipment Management / Material Procurement and Planning for Offshore and Onshore Platforms and Drilling Rigs

 

EDUCATION:

 

1978-1983

Osmania University Hyderabad

Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Mech. Engg.)

 

1988-1999

I.G.N.O University            New Delhi

Diploma in Management

 

 

1997-2000

University of Madras   Chennai

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

 

PERSONAL DETAILS:

 

Date of Birth                                                     :           23 July 1961

 

Nationality                                                        :           Indian

 

Marital Status                                                    :           Married